Businesses Pay to Plow Yellowstone National Park

By

Caroline Porter

March 15, 2013 7:09 p.m. ET

Businesses and organizations around Yellowstone National Park have helped raise most of the funds needed to bolster snow plowing inside the country's oldest national park, allaying fears of a delayed opening this spring because of federal budget cuts contained in the sequester.

The annual plowing operation—a massive effort to clear a winter's worth of snow—was slated to begin March 4 but was delayed until March 18 to save money. Park...